Whooping cough vaccine loses its effectiveness

By Lucy Carroll
Updated April 23 2014 - 8:13pm, first published April 14 2014 - 7:24pm
Experts say it is more important than ever that babies are immunised as early as possible against whooping cough. Photo: Greg Newington
Experts say it is more important than ever that babies are immunised as early as possible against whooping cough. Photo: Greg Newington

The bacteria that causes deadly whooping cough has mutated to more easily evade its vaccine, potentially putting hundreds of thousands of children at risk.

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